Space System Software Engineer, Lead

About the role

This role is a lead full stack developer who leads a team in building software and systems from vision to production ready. The role involves resolving problems with a complete end-to-end solution in a fast, agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team as they learn new tools and techniques and identify needed system improvements.
• Help develop software-enabled products and help overcome the most difficult challenges using the latest architectural approaches, tools, and technologies.
• Maintain the solution developed by the team to consider the current architecture and operating environment, as well as future functionality and enhancements.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading space system or missile defense systems software development teams in production.
• Experience with weapon system requirements, design, and performance analysis for features such as engageability, interceptability, and lethality.
• Experience with DevOps principles, including automated CI/CD pipelines, configuration management, infrastructure automation, and cloud monitoring technologies.
• Experience with systems architecture, requirements management, and technical baseline management.
• Experience providing technical leadership for a software development team and mentoring and supervising employees within a collaborative team environment to help them grow.
• Experience with reviews of complex systems in accordance with the System Engineering Technical Review (SETR) process.
• Knowledge of Systems Modeling Language (SysML), DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and Unified Architecture Framework (UAF).

Qualifications

• Nice if you have: Experience with strategic and operational-level missile defense planning, employment, and concepts of operations; Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins; Experience with embedded programming and scripting languages such as Rust, C, C++, Python, Java, or JavaScript; Experience developing software within an Agile framework and DevSecOps infrastructure as part of a CI/CD pipeline; Experience designing the architecture and containerized services with Kubernetes; TS/SCI clearance.

Skills

To be considered for this role, candidates must complete the required skills assessment to ensure they meet the Basic Qualifications for this role. Candidates must complete the assessment and meet the minimum proficiency threshold to continue in the hiring process.

Benefits

At Booz Allen, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen's benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits page.

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $112,800.00 to $257,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Work model varies depending on the position type (remote, hybrid, or onsite).